Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds

Since the early 1980’s personal computers have provided artists with new tools that challenge linear, authoritative forms of presentation by introducing elements of real-time graphics and audio, interactivity and participation. Today, availability and increasing ease of use of the so called “game engines” allows artists to create virtual, interactive spaces that can be driven or inspired by music, its rhythm and lyrics, just like the music video genre that was born at around the same time as the personal computer and was popularized by the MTV culture and wide availability of the video technology.

Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds is a collection of interactive virtual sculptures and environments inspired by 13 tracks of analog sounds composed by artists of the Warsaw Electronic Festival. The viewer can explore the virtual space and mentally immerse him/herself in a contemplative, stimulating electronic soundscape. The explorations are time limited to the length of individual sounds. Some pieces are pure explorations of the 3D environments, others evolve with time and with development of the sounds. The sounds are played linearly but the interactive experience of the virtual space challenges that linearity. My attempt was to create an interactive audiovisual environment that, regardless of the juxtaposition of the linear audio and non-linear visuals, develops its own rhythm in time and space.

Play Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds
(You will be asked to download Unity3D player if you don't have it yet. Decent 3D graphics card is needed to view the project properly)

The project was conceived by a composer and musician, Krzysztof Cybulski. However, it was Jarek Grzesica, WEF's director, who had contacted me with the idea of creating interactive 3D visualizations of the 13 tracks that were selected for the project.

The premiere of the Digital Sculptures for Analog Sounds took place on June 17, 2010 at the Gallery 2.0, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland during WEF 2010. On your left you can watch videos from the exhibition (Polish language).

Credits:

Digital Sculptures:
Przemyslaw Moskal

Analog Sounds Compilation:
Krzysiek Cybulski

Producer:
Jaroslaw Grzesica

Analog Sounds:
Brunette Models, Lukasz Ciszak, Krzysiek Cybulski, Eta Carinae, Jarek Grzesica, Guiddo, Hau, Kim Nasung, Nmls, noiko, RND, Vasen Piparjuuri, Michal Wolski

Warsaw Electronic Festival 2010

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